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Introducing the AWS CloudWatch integration, Grafana Cloud's first fully managed integration

At Grafana Labs, we are continuing to build integrations that make it easier than ever to observe your systems, no matter which tools or software you choose. Today, we’re excited to talk about the latest integration available in Grafana Cloud: the AWS CloudWatch metrics integration, the first of our fully managed integrations that makes it simple to connect and visualize your data in Grafana.

Best Practices for Cloud Monitoring

In our last episode, we covered best practices for deploying and using Cloud Operations in an enterprise environment. But we still left some questions unanswered. How should you monitor your services? How should you deal with alerts? And what about managing cost? In this episode of Engineering for Reliability, Yuri discusses best practices for setting up and using Cloud Monitoring and optimizing monitoring costs.

Lower Your Google Cloud Costs with These 5 Google Dataproc Best Practices

Thinking about using Google Dataproc as your cloud vendor? We can see why. Google Dataproc is a powerful tool for analytics and data processing, but to get the most out of it you have to ensure you use it properly. We’re going to explore five best practices you can use to lower your Google cloud costs while maximizing efficiency: Following these tips will ensure the best performance and help keep your cloud costs in line.

A Simple Guide to Taming the Beast That Is Kubernetes

Containers are amazing. But when you start to orchestrate them in a complex environment, they can become quite the beast. Kubernetes is one of the best tools to tame that beast, but few resources exist to help you manage your big data workloads on Kubernetes. If you want to learn how you can optimize your big data workloads on Kubernetes, this is for you.

Deploying your first Serverless REST API within minutes

In this video, we'll show you how to get started with the serverless framework in minutes. To make sure your app will be running smoothly at all times, we'll also take you through how to set up observability for debugging, alerting, and troubleshooting so that you don't miss any critical errors and warning signs.

Markerstudy Group leverages investment in Citrix Cloud Services and IGEL OS to deliver a 'hybrid' future of office and home working

IGEL announces today that British insurance services company, Markerstudy Group, has quickly, successfully and cost-effectively introduced working from home, capitalising on its transition to Citrix Cloud Services and a EUC solution which comprises over 3,000 IGEL OS powered endpoints.

New Platform.sh overview video: a proven, 5-step approach helps explain a complex concept

The question that people who don’t know us constantly ask, “What does Platform.sh do, exactly?” Our new overview video aims to answer just that. We took a five-step approach to ensure our message was both clear and succinct: We hope that this video addresses the question about what Platform.sh does and inspires you to use the same five-step framework when you’re tasked with explaining a difficult concept.

How to Measure and Improve Your Serverless Application's Health

This article will cover how the health of your serverless application can be measured and improved. Technology and its implementation methodology evolve with time very rapidly. Cost efficiency and productivity are the key drivers of technological evolution these days. With the advent of the cloud, infrastructure costs have been brought down significantly. Serverless technology adds icing to the cake!